Friday, 11 May 2018
Owl in Winter. (Revised).
Short days.
The cold nights encourage the work of the Owl,
Sharpen his appetite,
Test his skill.
Between the birth and death of the silent moon
He must make a kill.
Hunched in his jacket of wings
The Owl sits still and waits,
His heart scarcely beating. -
A precision crafted machine
Primed to perfection
By robot engineering,
His keen eyes, laser slicing the dark,
Scan the forest for prey.
The wind, incising the undergrowth like a surgeon
Employing a scalpel to make a perfect cut,
Reveals the zigzag movements of a vole
Darting for cover.
Keen eyes examine the trauma.
That instant life and death have just one face.
A cry stark as the winter forests
Acts as prologue to the deed of terror.
Quick talons grip and claw.
Wisely the Owl hones silence like a blade,
His iron secret,
A silence that hangs like arctic water
Knifing toward the snow.
This is the Owl in his moon cold fury,
The barb and craft of a dark vocation
His infinite skill.
Only the sunlight can mellow his actions,
Moulding his wings around sleep.
Trevor John Karsavin Potter.
December 18th. 1972. - September 6th. 2012.
June 17th. - 18th. 2016. - May 11th. - 12th. 2018.
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